Background

Mr. John C. Whitehead is an Advisor at Oriens. Mr. Whitehead serves as Member of Advisory Board of Danube Fund and Claremont Preparatory School LLC. He serves as a Member of Advisory Council of TechnoServe, Inc. Mr. Whitehead serves as a Member of American Advisory Board of Christie's Inc. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Upromise, Inc. Mr. Whitehead is the former Chairman of Federal ... Reserve Bank of New York; former Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He served as a Director of New York Stock Exchange and The J. Paul Getty Trust Inc. He served on the board various companies. He served as a Director of National Humanities Center; NYSE Euronext, Inc. Mr. Whitehead served as the Co-Chairman and Senior Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. since 1976. Mr. Whitehead serves as a Director of The Nature Conservancy Endowment Fund; International Executive Service Corps; Business Executives for National Security; The Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York, Inc. and East West Institute. Mr. Whitehead serves as Member of Advisory Board - America at Christie's International Plc and Christie's International SA. Mr. Whitehead serves as Director and Honorary Trustee of Lincoln Center Theater. He serves as a Trustee at The Bridgespan Group Inc. and Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships. He serves as Honorary Trustee of The Brookings Institution and Honorary Life Trustee of Asia Society. He co-founded Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy in 1999 and also serves as its Director. From April 1985 to January 1989, Mr. Whitehead served as Deputy Secretary of State, second-in-command to Secretary George Shultz, US. During this period, he served as Acting Secretary of State. He served in the U.S. Navy, participating in the invasions of Normandy, Southern France, IWO Jima and Okinawa. While in the Navy, he was assigned as an Instructor at the Harvard Business School. Mr. Whitehead serves as Chairman Emeritus of Brookings Institution, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and International Rescue Committee. He has been Co- Chairman of Goldman Sachs Foundation, since November 2001 and Founding Chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corp. since November 2001. He serves as Co-Chairman of AMDeC Foundation, Inc. He serves as the Chairman Emeritus of Asia Society. Mr. Whitehead served as the Chairman of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association; the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts; International House; The Federal Reserve Bank of New York; AEA Investors LP; United Nations Association; Securities Industry Association Inc.; the Harvard Board of Overseers; Haverford College; and the Asia Society. He serves as a Director of National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. Since 1989, he has been active in a number of educational, civic and charitable organizations. He served on the Board of Rockefeller University. Mr. Whitehead was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Reagan. He attended public schools and graduated from Montclair High School. He holds Honorary Degrees from Haverford, Pace, Rutgers, Amherst, and Harvard. He received his MBA degree with distinction from Harvard in 1947 and graduated from Haverford College in 1943.

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